Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is the best way to promote STD prevention in youth?

2.  The third answer to my essential question is that parents need to use the media to make connections between that and sex talks.
3.Three details to justify my third answer

• Not all children or teens feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex and STDs. 
• There needs to be something that makes them more open to talking about the subject. Like something that they like to watch, then the parent can make a connection between the two and start the conversation. 
• Build a good line of communication from early on. If parents are not open to talking about sex or STD protection wheb kids are young then the youth will be less likely to seek out the parents when they are older and have questions.
•  The parents may use the media if they feel more comfortable to start the conversation. But they need to let the youth lead the conversation. 

4.  My 40th research article "Kids Health" helped me prove my third answer.
5.  The next thing I plan to study is different techniques used to promote STD prevention in youth. I plan on doing this because teens can hear information about STDs but they need to be interested in it or hear it in an interesting way in order to actually learn from the information given to them.  

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1) What is the best way to promote STD prevention in youth?
2) What are some ways STD programs can be implemented in schools?
3) Where have you seen STD prevention promoted?
4) If STD prevention is implemented in schools, in what grade do you believe it should start being done?
5) When given facts about STDs, who will teens listen to the most?
6) How can teens you reduce the risk of contracting an STD?
7) When children are at a young age, what should be taught to them in regards to STDs?
8) At what age should information about STDs be given?
9) How else can teens protect themselves against STDs, if they are already using condoms?
10) What needs to be done, in order for a school to implement STD prevention programs?
11) If abstinence is the best way to reduce the risk of contracting an STD, then why are so many teens still contracting them?
12) There are many ways people can contract STDs, so what other things should be talked about besides abstinence?
13) If schools do not incorporate STD prevention into their curriculum, then how will teens be informed about that?
14) At what age should teens get tested for STDs? And how often?
15) How should STD prevention be implemented in the teens lives?
16) What are different techniques that schools can use to get teens to attend the program?
17) If teens choose to be sexually active, why do parents get to choose whether or not the teen attends the STD prevention program?
18) Based on your knowledge of STDs, how do you know if you have one? And how do you go about treating it?
19) When talking to teens about STDs, what else should they be informed about?
20) How can the schools reduce the spread of STDs amongst their students?

Blog 16: 2- Hour Meeting Answer #2

1) What is the best way to promote disease prevention in youth in family medicine.
2) The second answer to my essential question is that teachers need to be educated on the different types of diseases so that they can then incorporate what they have learned into the curriculum. 
3) Three details to justify my second answer

• Each state needs to pass a law and policies on STD education, in order to allow teachers to teach youth about this topic. 
• Each state should come up with a training program to help educate teachers on the HIV and STDs. This will allow the teachers to inform the youth with accurate information in regards to the diseases. 
• Schools have direct contact with more than 56 million students daily, for at least 6 hours a day. For about thirteen critical years of their social, physical and intellectual development. 

4) The CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health helped me prove my second answer. 

5) I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by researching more programs that incorporate this method into their schools curriculum. 

Blog 15: Independant Component 2 Plan Approval

1) I plan on continuing my service learning hours with my mentor and learning more about the STDs in teenagers.
2) I think my plan of continuing my mentorship hours will allow me to complete the 30 required hours because I shadow my mentor and do office work. They always allow me to do both, unless the patient does not allow me to go in the room.
3) My independant component relates to my working EQ because I will gain knowledge in regards to my topic and I will probably see first hand encounters with patients that are going in for STD related illnesses.